Linda Masters: Can the flowers predict the weather? Let's hope so

5:06 PM,
Feb. 25, 2013

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I am hoping my daffodils and snow lilies know something weather forecasters and meteorologists do not, as they are up through the ground and growing by leaps an bounds. There are several of my early daffodils that are blooming, and even the ice last week, did not destroy them. We won't be out of the woods until the snow liliies bloom. The plant's actual name is summer snowflakes, but an elderly woman who was a Bull Shoals pioneer, call the flowers snow lilies and said it always snowed while they were blooming. In the 39 years we've lived in our house, the flowers only have been wrong one time. I will let ...